CNG 93, Lot: 1914. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Emden (Stadt). AR Medal (52mm, 43.68 g, 12h). Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Founding of the ‘College of Forty’. Dated 1789. SVB VMBRA ALARVM TVARVM (under the cloud of thy wings), view of the seaport of Emden; above, crowned eagle flying left, head upturned right, holding scepter and orb; rayed personification of the sun to upper right; in exergue, crowned coat-of-arms of Emden between NVMM. COLL./XL. VIR./CIV. EMB. (the college of forty men for the city of Emden) in three lines / TWEE EEUWEN/HIELD GODS STERKE HAND/HET WERK DER VEERTIGEN/IN STAND/OM VEILIGHEID AN REGTEN WETTEN/VAN EMDENS BURG’REN BY TESETTEN/GOD ONDERSCHRAAG’ HEN STEEDS/MET KRACHT/TOT HEIL VOOR’T LAATSTE/NAGESLACHT in ten lines; above, CC within garlanded wreath; below, two right hands clasped, with crowned scepter between and garland above; around in three lines, D. 8 MAY 1789/SALVS POPV LI SVPREMA/LEX ESTO (may the good of the people be the highest law). Knyph. 6310. EF, toned.